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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 55 SW 93 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | 63 AND 65 HIGH STREET |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1899
| Grid Reference: | TQ 5307 5454 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ55SW |
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| Parish: | SEVENOAKS, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- SITE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1500 AD to 1899 AD)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II) 1336387: 63 AND 65 HIGH STREET |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HIGH STREET 1. 1614 (West Side) Nos 63 and 65 TQ 5354/1/40 l3.4.51 II 2. Probably a C16 framed structure. First floor over-sailing and supported on wooden brackets. The whole of the first floor is covered with C19 fishscale tile hhanging which is carried up in centre as a parapet with lead coping and brought down as half gable to right and left. Ridge tile roof behind parapet in centre, hipped to left. One tall chimney stack. Ground floor with early C19 odd shop windows including small splayed bay. Stucco base to shop windows, with incised lines. Plastered soffit to over-sailing first floor with moulded wooden fascia. The over-sailing first floor is raised in centre and supported on carved brackets. On first floor 3 C18 sash windows with glazing bars in centre and large modern painted wooden mullioned and transomed casements to right and left. Side elevation towards Rochdale Road with exposed half-timbering on ground floor with red brick infilling. Tile-hanging above.
Listing NGR: TQ5307554543 (1)
In 1994 a survey on cellars in the Sevenoaks area was undertaken. 63 and 65 High Street was found to have the entire floor area taken by the cellar. One property, under front rooms, original beams and window in cellar. (2)
<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<2> ?, 1994, Sevenoaks Cellar Survey (Unpublished document). SKE17186.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: ?. 1994. Sevenoaks Cellar Survey. |
